17341794 German naturalist and originatorof the modern epigenetic theory of development who also advanced study in human malformations and their heredity.
Keywords: developmental biology; epigenesis; embryology; teratology; heredity
Janina Wellmann, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
Published online: February 2003
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002960
17341794 German naturalist and originatorof the modern epigenetic theory of development who also advanced study in human malformations and their heredity.
Keywords: developmental biology; epigenesis; embryology; teratology; heredity
| Further Reading | |
| book Wolff CF (1764) Theorie von der Generation: in zwei Abhandlungen erklärt und bewiesen von Caspar Friedrich Wolff. Berlin: Birnstiel. | |
| book Wolff CF (1789) Zwo Abhandlungen über die Nutritionskraft welche von der Kayserlichen Academie der Wissenschaften in St Petersburg den Preis getheilt erhalten haben. Die erste von Herrn Hofrath Blumenbach, die zwote von Herrn Prof. Born. Nebst einer fernern Erläuterung eben derselben Materie, von C. F. Wolff. Der Akademie Mitglied. St Petersburg: Kayserliche Akademie der Wißenschaften. | |
| book Wolff CF (1759/1896) Theoria Generationis. Leipzig: Engelmann. | |
| book Wolff CF (1973) Obiecta meditationum pro theoria monstrorum (Latin and Russian). Leningrad: Izd. Nauka. | |
| Gaissinovitch AE (1990) C.F. Wolff on variability and heredity. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 12: 179201. | |
| Rajkov BE (1964) Caspar Friedrich Wolff. Zoologische Jahrbücher/Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 91(4): 555626. | |
| book Roe S (1981) Matter, Life and Generation: Eighteenth-Century Embryology and the HallerWolff Debate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
| book Uschmann G (1955) Caspar Friedrich Wolff. Ein Pionier der modernen Embryologie. Leipzig and Jena: Urania-Verlag. | |